Question about the hardware requirement for mysql cluster with load balancing???

[johN5Five^]

hi all..sorry..i m still newbie in network stuffs..can someone help me

i m now trying to make a mysql cluster with load balancing follow the howto tutorial ...
but i dont knw wat is the hardware minimum requirement for every nodes..

my current nodes is:
# 10.100.100.101 Load Balancer 1 / MySQL cluster management server
# 10.100.100.102 MySQL cluster node 1
# 10.100.100.103 MySQL cluster node 2
# 10.100.100.104 Load Balancer 2
# 10.100.100.105 Virtual IP

how many NIC is needed for each nodes????

it is the virtual IP that configured between mysql node1 and node 2 is use the different NIC...Which i mean that is it the Mysql node1 & 2 have 2 NICs????

can someone help me pls.. i follow everything in the howto tutorial but i having cluster's connection problem after ifup the virtual ip address...every cluster node is not connected .. i dont knw what's wrong?

pls help!!! thx

[falko]

Every node needs just one NIC.

[johN5Five^]

Thx for reply me, falko

oh, my distribution is Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)

is it the problem of OS? which is the howto tutorial is based on debian sarge, but i m using ubuntu as my distribution...Are the IPVS is not support for ubuntu????

[falko]

I think it should work on Ubuntu, too, but I haven't tried...